Confronting the Drug Control Establishment
Subtitle: Alfred Lindesmith As a Public Intellectual (S U N Y Series in Deviance and Social Control)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780791443941
Subjects: Biography: general; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociologists; Lindesmith, Alfred Ray,; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Social psychologists; Biography/Autobiography; Social Scientists & Psychologists; Opium abuse; Political; Biography; United States; 1905-
Description: "Confronting the Drug Control Establishment is a biography of Alfred R. Lindesmith and an intellectual history of his times. A sociologist at Indiana University, Lindesmith believed legal prohibition of addictive drugs was futile and wrote widely on the threat to democracy inherent in such a policy." "Throughout his life Lindesmith attempted to utilize his research for the creation of more rational and humane drug control laws. His consistent message was that the addict's self-concept is a central element in human addiction. Lindesmith felt that an overriding influence on an addict's self-concept is a fear of withdrawal, which keeps an addict from seeking treatment and becomes a key driving force in the drug problem."--BOOK JACKET.